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Author:   David Attwell ,  Annalisa Pes ,  Susanna Zinato
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.331kg
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9781032241180

ISBN 10:   1032241187
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   13 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Shame, Literature and the Postcolonial Chapter one - Writing in, of and around Shame: J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K David Attwell Chapter two - Cursing the Fathers’ Curse: A Tragic Reading of White Shame in J.M. Coetzee’s In The Heart of the Country and Age of Iron Susanna Zinato Chapter three - Dictator Games: On Shame, Shitholes, and Beautiful Things Rita Barnard Chapter four - ""Unfinished Business"": Digging up the past in Christine Piper’s After Darkness and Cory Taylor’s My Beautiful Enemy Sue Kossew Chapter five - Different Shades of Shame. The Responsibilities and Legacies of a Shameful History in Australian Fiction Annalisa Pes Chapter six - Contemporary Australian Refugee Policies and Shame as Reflected in A. S. Patric’s Black Rock, White City (2015) Dolores Herrero Chapter seven - American Postcolonial Shame, Fiction and Timothy Bewes David Callahan Chapter eight - ""Like solemn Afro-Greeks avid for grades"": Individual and Historical Shame in Walcott’s Earlier Poetry Angelo Righetti Chapter nine - Shame, Justice and the Representation of Violence in Postcolonial Literature: The Case of Caryl Phillips Vincent van Bever Donker Chapter ten - Afterword: ""A Swarm of Locusts Passed By"" Timothy Bewes Index"

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David Attwell is Professor of English at the University of York in the UK and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He co-edited and conducted the interviews for J.M. Coetzee’s Doubling the Point Essays and Interviews. His monographs include J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing; Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History; and most recently, J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing. Annalisa Pes is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Verona. Besides articles and book chapters, her publications include: Ex-centric Writing. Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction (co-ed.), Sermoni, amori e misteri. Il racconto coloniale australiano al femminile, and Stories that Keep on Rising to the Surface. I racconti di Patrick White. Susanna Zinato is Associate Professor of English at the University of Verona. Besides articles and book chapters, her publications include: The house is empty: Grammars of Madness in J. Frame’s Scented Gardens for the Blind and B. Head’s A Question of Power; Rehearsals of the Modern: Experience and Experiment in Restoration Drama (ed.); Ex-centric Writing: Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction (co-ed.).

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